Waite — Fishes of South Australia 



CLUPEA Linnaeus, 17r)S fharengus). 



CLUPEA BA,SSENSIS McCulloch (Sprat). 



Chi.pea sprattiis (iiiiith.. P.Z.S.. 1871. p. (i7l2 ' not Liiiii.). 



Chipea hasseitsis McC'iill.. EiKlcav'our livs.. i. IIHI. p. Ki, j)!. \y. fi<>'. 2. 



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Fio-. ."i2. CJupea hasfioisif:. 



Scarcely (listiii<i't!islial)l(' fi-nm the Euroix'an S])ral. hut not coininpi'cially 

 netted. 



SARDINIA Poey, 1860 (pseudoliispaniea^ 



SARDINIA NEOPILCHARDA Steindachner (Pilchard). 



Chipea neopilchdxlus Htpind., Dnilc. Akad. Wicn., xli, 187!)..]). ^'l. 



Chipea sag ax Cast., P.Z.S., Vict., i, 1S71\ p. 187; Ooil., P^dib. Fisli. X.S.W., 1898, 



p. 180, pi. xlv. 

 Chipanodon neopilcJiairhis AVait(\ Mem. Anst. Mns., i^•, 1899, \). 7)'A; Stead, Edib. 



Fish. N.S.W., 1908. p. 2.1. pi. iv ; MeCidl.. Eiulcavour Kcs.. i, liHl, p. 17; 



Roiighley, Fisli. Anst., 1916, p. 80. 

 Amhlyg aster neopHchardiis Waite, Aust. Aiitarct. Exped. Fi.shes. iii, 1916, p. .16. 

 Sardina neopilchardiis Eeo'an, A.M.N.H. (8), xviii, 1!)16, p. 14. pi. i, fi<>'. 2. 



Fig'. 5.3. Stirdiiiia iwn/iilciKtrdd. 



Said to visit Australian shores every winter in countless myriads, and 

 destined some day to become an important source of food. In Europe young 



